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Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports, when you need to be authorised and plants that need passports.
The seeds which must be certified before you can market them, how to get them certified and how to get a licence for your seed business.
Plants and wood that need a plant passport for movement within Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Allocation coefficients and decisions
What growers and traders need to do to move plants (including plants for planting, seeds, used agricultural and forestry machinery and vehicles and seed potatoes) using a Northern Ireland plant health label (NIPHL).
Find out about the Fruit and Vegetables Aid Scheme.
Protocols and procedures for testing the value for cultivation or use (VCU) of agricultural crops.
How to apply for certification, the register of growers and fees for crop and tuber inspections under the Seed Potato Classification Scheme (SPCS).
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
What you need to do as a food and drink business to work with the EU.
How much it costs to apply for plant breeders’ rights or to add a new plant variety to the national list.
Find out what a producer organisation (PO) is and the benefits of joining one.
How commercial plant growers can grow FPCS-certified stock, and find out the benefits of using it in commercial plantations.
Instructions for crop inspectors on seed certification in England and Wales.
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